be to man the source of life. Man was ever to be the recipient, and yet at the same time the disposer of the life God bestowed. When man had fallen through sin, and God entered into a covenant of salvation, these two sides of the relationship had still to be maintained intact. God was ever to be the first, and man the second. And yet man, as made in God’s image, was ever, as second, to have full time and opportunity to appropriate or reject what God gave, to prove how far he could help himself, and
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